December 25, 1868, and January 20, 2025, will now be forever linked in American history. These are the dates when two of our ...

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of the presidential pardon.

There is one grey area: revoking a pardon that hasn’t been formally delivered. In 1869, outgoing president Andrew Johnson issued a pardon which incoming president Ulysses S. Grant soon tried to ...

Andrew Johnson granted reprieves to Confederate civil ... Mr Trump’s indiscriminate pardons of those involved in the January 6th attack on the Capitol understandably dominated headlines.

Harry Truman granted 2,044 pardons and Calvin Coolidge issued 1,691. Among the presidents before 1900, Andrew Johnson granted 7,654 clemencies, placing him among the highest in presidential history.